Constituency
271. Dahanu
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DAHANU
INC 43.5%won by 6.1%BJP 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.6% to 43.5% of the vote here (+15.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.9% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,15,918
Turnout
39.9%
Valid votes
5,64,345
Margin
34,558
6.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1NAM SHANKAR SAKHARAMIndian National Congress · INC2,45,56743.5%
- 2ADV. CHINTAMAN WANAGABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,11,00937.4%
- 3OZARE RAJARAM NATHUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,03,10918.3%
- 4BENDKULE RAMESH HARIIndependent · IND2,6890.5%
- 5JADHAV BALIRAM SUKURIndependent · IND1,9710.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +19.6%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 43.5%
- BJP share
- 42.0% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 38.6% → 39.9%